Been seeing things like this for about 6-7 months now that big brother can spy on with your cell phone wonder whats next soon we wont have any freedom.. http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/cell_phones_take_out_the_batteries.htm
Contact a lawyer....you never know.
But I think the "it's for your protection" crowd over power us privacy loving folks.
Thank the northeast region and west coast.
Need a cell phone but worried about privacy?
Simple solution - put cell phone in shoe box with a cheap radio that's not quite tuned to a local talk-radio station. With the speaker facing the mic, all they'll hear is static and mumbling, and it's harder to reverse-filter it.
The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled.
It's a bunch of crap. Anyone that's worked on the technical side of a cell provider or has a decent knowledge of how those devices work knows that this idea is complete and utter nonesense on the level of the moon landings being faked. No, they can't "activate the microphone" when the phone is turned off. When your phone is turned off it's turned off, it doesn't recieve signals so it can't respond to commands and it doesn't transmit signals so it can't even be found. The only difference in turning the phone and taking the batteries out is that the phone's internal backup battery is taken off standby to provide just enough power for the CMOS to retain it's core operating information. That's it.
The FBI cannot listen to your conversation is the phone is off. Anyone telling you different simply doesn't know how cell phones work. I don't doubt this feature may become available in the future but as of today there is not a single phone on the market that can do this nor a single American provider that would allow this.
Very true. Digital data, by definition, has to be recorded, copied and archived to be transmitted. Analogue calls, on the other hand, do not need to be recorded by default but most often are.I don't want to pile on here, but there are things that people should be aware of:
1) Every cell phone provider can record all digital calls. How long they are archived depends on the provider. It is a trivial process to fork the data stream and copy it as it is digital. Wiretaps are built into the system.
Also true. It's that GPS system that connects you to the right call center for customer service and 411. It also connects you to the right 911 dispatch so you're not speaking to hometown cops if you need to make an emergency call while away from home.2) All new phones come with GPS chips that can be queried remotely. (no idea on whether that query works when the phone is "off")
Good point. Still, none of them currently do this because it's not within their capability. Phones are simply not designed to work without main battery power and they don't have that power when the phone is off. Again, this doesn't mean it can't happen in the very near future if someone decides to tell Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson to do so but currently there are no cell phones on the consumer market with this ability.I disagree with the assessment that american providers would not allow this. There isn't exactly a history of pushback by them in the past.
All they power is the internal components essential for operation. When a phone is turned off main battery power stops flowing.
Cell phones themselves do NOT have embedded GPS systems (with a few expensive exceptions). The use of GPS is done by the cell-tower/antenna systems and primarily as a source of accurate timing, not positioning. It's possible to locate a cell phone in a general area (served by that tower) but not down to a 1-30 meter range without triangulating from other towers (something they're trying to do with the E911 systems).